I feel like I've been waiting for this movie since my father first took me to see To Fly! at the Air & Space Museum in 1976. He's a space buff; I grew up a space buff. All I want to know is: how did they fit those enormous IMAX cameras into the space station?posted by swerve at 4:21 PM on April 16, 2002

swerve:

"The normal Imax 3-D camera is the size of a small refrigerator, not something you can easily lug into space.

So a new, smaller camera had to be built to NASA size specifications — it turned out about the size of a microwave oven. At that size the camera can take only 108 seconds of film before reloading, so it was important to get a shot right the first time."--Yahoo Newsposted by mr_crash_davis at 4:43 PM on April 16, 2002

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